Crypto liquidations, Wednesday, October 21, 2026

$278.0M of leveraged positions were force-closed across 10 exchanges on this day, a two-sided deleveraging.

liquidated (24h)

$278.0M

events

76,679

longs wiped

$80.7M

shorts wiped

$197.3M

long 29%short 71%

Hourly intensity (UTC)

Liquidated volume per hour, stacked by side. Hover a bar for exact values.

$53.6M

$26.8M

$53.6M

S peak 14:00 · $53.6M

L peak 13:00 · $15.0M

00:00 UTC06:00 UTC12:00 UTC18:00 UTC24:00 UTC

above line, short liquidations (forced buys) below line, long liquidations (forced sells)hover a bar for exact values

What happened on 2026-10-21

76,679 liquidation events were recorded on this day, totalling $278.0M. Liquidations were two-sided (29% long / 71% short), a volatile session that punished leverage in both directions.

BTC bore the brunt: $85.4M across 4,165 events , 31% of the day's total. ETH followed with $64.4M. The single largest wipe of the day: a short ETHUSDT position worth $8.7M on binance at 13:06 UTC.

Data on this page is not an estimate: every event was recorded from the exchange engines in real time on the day it happened. Coverage: binance, hyperliquid, okx, bybit, gate, bitget, htx, aster, lighter, bitfinex. Vendors quoting different totals for the same day are reconstructing, extrapolating or double-counting, see the liquidation cascade entry in our dictionary.